British Journal of Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Psychology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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“May I present you: my disgust!” – Declared disgust sensitivity in the presence of attractive models77
Real‐life outgroup exposure, self‐reported outgroup contact and the other‐race effect47
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other‐‘race’ effect: An attempt at integrating different perspectives44
The Cambridge handbook of working memory and languageBy John W.Schwieter and Zhisheng (Edward)Wen (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardcover US $155.00. ISBN:33
What kind of impacts can artwork have on viewers? Establishing a taxonomy for aesthetic impacts30
What ugly and beautiful photographs reveal about COVID‐19 lockdown experiences, everyday aesthetics and photography aesthetics28
Comparison of face‐based and voice‐based first impressions in a Chinese sample24
Effects of relative deprivation on change in displaced aggression and the underlying motivation mechanism: A three‐wave cross‐lagged analysis24
Pain in the eye of the beholder: Variations in pain visual representations as a function of face ethnicity and culture22
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Learning in the face of failure: The benefit of autistic traits19
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On the role of experience versus motivation in predicting the own‐race effect18
Intolerance of uncertainty and novelty facilitated extinction: The impact of reinforcement schedule18
Associations between sleep variables and ostensibly paranormal experiences and paranormal beliefs: A scoping review17
Reactions to research on sex differences: Effect of sex favoured, researcher sex, and importance of sex‐difference domain17
Unveiling the factors of aesthetic preferences with explainable AI17
Understanding trait impressions from faces16
Personality psychology: A new perspective By JanekMusek, Switzerland: Springer Nature AG. 2024. Ebook £96.29. ISBN 978‐3‐031‐55308‐016
ASMR‐Experience Questionnaire (AEQ): A data‐driven step towards accurately classifying ASMR responders15
Statistical modelling of vignette data in psychology15
What makes us human: How minds develop through social interactions.15
The impact of response type on affordance and spatial compatibility effects in human and object interactions14
Mood induction through imitation of full‐body movements with different affective intentions13
The orgasm fantasy: Improving sex and relationships By OferGrosbardQueens, NY: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2020. USD 25.99, ISBN 978194909388912
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Emotion ensemble judgement: Cognitive training for a positive perspective12
The effect of familiarity on within‐person age judgements from voices12
Sorries seem to have the harder words11
Editorial Acknowledgement11
The effects of the presence of a face and direct eye gaze on voice identity learning10
Editorial: Introducing the British Psychological Society Journal's landmark special issue on diversity10
Moral reasoning behind the veil of ignorance: An investigation into perspective‐taking accessibility in the context of autonomous vehicles10
Leading by example: Experimental evidence that therapist lived experience disclosures can model the path to recovery for clients10
Caregivers' time poverty, parenting styles and children's growth mindset9
Explanation strategies in humans versus current explainable artificial intelligence: Insights from image classification9
Holistic face processing is influenced by non‐conscious visual information9
Identifying subtypes in persons, situations and person–situation interactions: Categorical latent state–trait modelling approaches9
The sociological interpretation of dreams, by BernardLahire. Oxford, UK: Polity Press, 2020. Hardback, USD 42.82, ISBN 9781509537945.8
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Satisfied on our own, yet ready to leave together: An actor–partner interdependence mediation model on job satisfaction and turnover intentions in leader–follower dyads8
The influence of socio‐economic status on child temperament and psychological symptom profiles8
Are there gender differences in promotion–prevention self‐regulatory focus?8
Longitudinal relations among perceived parental warmth, self‐esteem and social behaviours from middle childhood to early adolescence in China: Disentangling between‐ and within‐person associations8
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The meaning of masculinity for educated young Bedouins8
The effects of task‐irrelevant threatening stimuli on orienting‐ and executive attentional processes under cognitive load8
Better posters: Plan, design, and present an academic poster.7
Larger comfortable interpersonal distances in adults exposed to child maltreatment: The role of depressive symptoms and social anxiety7
Close encounters: Interpersonal proximity amplifies social appraisals7
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Default categorization of outgroup faces and the other race effect: Commentary on the special issue7
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Automatic or controlled: How does disbelief in free will influence cognitive functioning?7
Importance of transgender nuances in research and advocacy: Reply to Morgenroth (2025) and Tate (2025)7
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Protecting against misinformation: Evaluating the effectiveness of three techniques to reduce memory conformity6
How living in economically unequal societies shapes our minds and our social lives6
Psychopathic personality traits are linked to reduced false memories for negative events6
Is poor control over thoughts and emotions related to a higher tendency to delay tasks? The link between procrastination, emotional dysregulation and attentional control6
Perceiving visual events uses optical information that reflects dynamics rather than resembles appearance6
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The state of modelling face processing in humans with deep learning6
Human populations are not biologically and genetically discrete6
A multi‐analyses approach of inductive/deductive asymmetry in the affective priming paradigm6
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Development of a theory of mind assessment for children using multidimensional Rasch modelling6
Emotion‐driven or relationship‐driven? Longitudinal associations between insecure parent–child attachment, perceived family support and depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents6
Comparison of outcomes across low‐intensity psychological interventions for depression and anxiety within a stepped‐care setting: A naturalistic cohort study using propensity score modelling6
Why moral judgements change across variations of trolley‐like problems6
One size does not fit all: Exploring how the five‐factor model facets predict disordered eating behaviours among adolescent and young adult males and females6
Sex differences in the association of math achievement with visual‐spatial and verbal working memory: Does the type of math test matter?5
Phonological similarity in the serial recall task hinders item recall, not just order5
Contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy: Evolving clinical practice By DavidKealy, & John S.Ogrodniczuk (Eds.), San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2019. Paperback USD 84.95, ISBN 97801281337365
Scoping review on natural language processing applications in counselling and psychotherapy5
Assessing novelty, feasibility and value of creative ideas with an unsupervised approach using GPT‐45
Impact of similarity on recognition of faces of Black and White targets5
The Status Importance Scale: Development and validation of a self‐report questionnaire for measuring how much people care about status5
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Keep bright in the dark: Multimodal emotional effects on donation‐based crowdfunding performance and their empathic mechanisms5
We need to move beyond rating scales, white faces and adult perceivers: Invited Commentary on Sutherland & Young (2022), understanding trait impressions from faces5
Decoding the language of first impressions: Comparing models of first impressions of faces derived from free‐text descriptions and trait ratings5
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Understanding anxiety through uncertainty quantification4
The moderating roles of resilience and social support in the relationships between bullying victimization and well‐being among Chinese adolescents: Evidence from PISA 20184
A test of the Morality‐Agency‐Communion (MAC) model of respect and liking across positive and negative traits4
Working memory capacity and self‐cues: Consistent benefits in children and adults4
Language about gender/sex should be used intentionally and flexibly4
Family‐focused treatment for child and adolescent mental health: A new paradigm By PaulSunseri, New York, NY: Routledge. 2024. 256. £28.79. ISBN 978‐1‐003‐39736‐64
Electrophysiological correlates of dispositional mindfulness: A quantitative and complexity EEG study4
Are brand names special words? Letter visual‐similarity affects the identification of brand names, but not common words4
Research and evaluation in education and psychology: Integrating diversity with quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodsby Donna M.Mertens, SAGE Publications. 2024. 6th edition, 528 pp. ISBN: 978‐4
The culture of perceptual expertise and the other‐race effect4
Before/after Bayes: A comparison of frequentist and Bayesian mixed‐effects models in applied psychological research4
Predictors of online and offline activism in hybrid regime society – Serbian study4
Empathy and parenthood: The moderating role of maternal trait empathy on parental burnout4
Perceiving multiple truths: Does dialectical thinking harmonize colourblind and multicultural ideals?4
Increases in sense of purpose predict future positive changes in personality traits4
Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk4
Spatial attention based on 2D location and relative depth order modulates visual working memory in a 3D environment4
Popcorn politics: Entertainment appraisals predict support for populist leaders4
The myth of regaining control: Ostracism increases superstitious tendencies4
Comparing music‐ and food‐evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study4
A dot that went for a walk: People prefer lines drawn with human‐like kinematics4
How to support learning with multimedia instruction: Implementation intentions help even when load is high3
First impressions from faces in the real world: Commentary on Sutherland and Young (2022)3
Independent effects of word concreteness and word valence on immediate serial recall3
Quantitative psychology: The 88th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society By MarieWiberg, Jee‐SeonKim, HeungsunHwang, HaoWu, TracySweet (eds.), Springer proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics,3
A recognition advantage for members of higher‐status racial groups3
Inter‐brain synchrony is associated with greater shared identity within naturalistic conversational pairs3
Ingroup and outgroup differences in face detection3
Effects of phonological awareness and morphological awareness on blind students' reading comprehension3
Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults3
Who tends to be a perfectionistic adolescent? Distinguishing perfectionism from excellencism and investigating the links with the Big Five and self‐esteem3
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Counselling children and adolescents: Working in school and clinical mental health settings (Special Indian edition) By JolieZiomek‐Daigle, New York, NY: Routledge. 2017. UK £ 56.99. ISBN: 978036724033
The social‐encoding benefit in face recognition is generalized to other‐race faces3
The structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: Theoretical and methodological considerations3
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Positive and negative touch differentially modulate metacognitive memory judgements for emotional stimuli3
Reward produces learning of a consciously inaccessible feature3
Involuntary remembering and ADHD: Do individuals with ADHD symptoms experience high volumes of involuntary memories in everyday life?2
Mapping the maze: A network analysis of social–emotional skills among children and adolescents with social–emotional difficulties2
Explainability increases trust resilience in intelligent agents2
Increase in physiological inhibitory control results in better suppression of unwanted memories2
On decoloniality: Concepts, analytics, praxis. ByWalter O.Mignolo and Catherine E.WalshDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Paperback US$ 27.95, ISBN 97808223710902
Preparing children to cope with earthquakes: Building emotional competence2
Effects of sleep on positive, negative and neutral valenced story and image memory2
Attraction in every sense: How looks, voice, movement and scent draw us to future lovers and friends2
Musicality – Tuned to the melody of vocal emotions2
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Loneliness is associated with a greater self‐reference effect in episodic memory when compared against a close friend2
The alone team: How an alone mindset affects group processes2
Editorial: Introducing the British Psychological Society journals' landmark special issue on the United Nation's Sustainability Goals2
Contrasting effects of exogenous and endogenous attention on size perception2
Exploring the spatial interference effects elicited by social and non‐social targets: A conditional accuracy function approach2
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Sex differences in reading and math test scores of children: A heterodoxical model By HobenThomas, Monographs in the psychology of education, Springer, 2023; ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐41271‐4 (print), 978‐3‐0312
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Justice perceptions and well‐being: Belief in a just world is a personal resource and a coping resource2
Mathematical psychology: The world of thoughts as a quantum space‐time with a gravitational core By NorbertSchwarzer, Jenny Stanford Publishing. 2024. 511 pp. ISBN: 9789815129274 (Hardcover), 978100352
What the Solitaire illusion tells us about perception of numerosity1
Comparing intertemporal decision‐making models: Predictions and applications in lifespan through subjective time perception1
Risk perception and conspiracy theory endorsement predict compliance with COVID‐19 public health measures1
Mapping physical characteristics in face images to social judgements1
Shame, pride, and relational trauma: Concepts and psychotherapy By KenBenau, New York: Routledge, 2022. Softcover US $39.95. ISBN 97811383623831
Audiovisual identity perception from naturally‐varying stimuli is driven by visual information1
Is the label ‘conspiracy theory’ a cause or a consequence of disbelief in alternative narratives?1
Face and voice identity matching accuracy is not improved by multimodal identity information1
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Paradoxical decrease of imitation performance with age in children1
Linking metaphor comprehension with analogical reasoning: Evidence from typical development and autism spectrum disorder1
The psychology of meditation: Varieties, effects, theories and perspectives. PeterSedlmeier. Newburyport, MA: Hogrefe. 2021. Softcover US $44.80, ISBN 97808893757651
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Event‐related potential and behavioural evidence of goal‐based expectations for consistent actions among group members1
Defensive emotions and evaluative judgements: Sensitivity to anger and fear predicts moral judgements, whereas sensitivity to disgust predicts aesthetic judgements1
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The gifted language learner: A case of nature or nurture? By Alene Moyer : Cambridge University Press, 2021. Paperback, USD 28.99, ISBN 97811087108621
A 21st century cognitive portrait of the Himba, a remote people of Namibia1
Effects of arousal reappraisal on the anxiety responses to stress: Breaking the cycle of negative arousal intensity and arousal interpretation1
Smartphone use and daily cognitive failures: A critical examination using a daily diary approach with objective smartphone measures1
Staying in control: Characterizing the mechanisms underlying cognitive control in high and low arousal states1
Social sharing of emotion during the collective crisis of COVID‐191
Psychology and gender: An advanced reader By Sadhana AvinashNatu (Ed.), London: Routledge India. 2024. 222 pp. ₹1295. ISBN: 97810325187321
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The reliability of UFO witness testimony By V.‐J.Ballester Olmos & Richard W.Heiden (Eds.), Turin: Upiar Press. 2023. pp. 7111
Too hot to help or too cold to care? On the links between ambient temperature, volunteerism, and civic engagement1
More elaborate processing of own‐race faces and less elaborate processing of other‐race faces contribute to the other‐race effect in face memory1
Asymmetrical responding to male versus female other‐race categories in 9‐ to 12‐month‐old infants1
Expressed emotion of caregivers to children at familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study – VIA 111
They should have known better: The roles of negligence and outcome in moral judgements of accidental actions1
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